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On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 8:01 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I think I'm going to switch. I need to start over anyway. I set up a |
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user account and a large pool but while I can mount it, I can't put |
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anything in it yet. I get a permission error. I likely missed a step or |
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something. Starting over will help correct that. lol |
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> By the way, when I got it installed, it did update to a newer version. I |
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didn't look to see if it was dated in any way but updates seem to be |
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available for FreeNAS. I dunno. |
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> Thanks for the info. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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At this point I think you're wise to just plug around in it for a little |
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while. Learn it a little bit. Build a few pools and get used to how it |
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works. It's a bit different than Linux. |
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In my case everything is NFS mounts and NFS exports work differently on |
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BSD. Assume you have a pool: |
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/mnt/MyPool/mark/Backups |
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and under that you want to have 3 directories exported to different |
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machines for backups, so |
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/mnt/MyPool/mark/Backups/science |
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/mnt/MyPool/mark/Backups/sciene2 |
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/mnt/MyPool/mark/Backups/StellarMate |
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where each user machine has a place to put things, and hence you can find |
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it, but no LVM, it's just a big pool of storage. Note there are all the |
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standard problems about permissions when you first set these directories |
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up, like making sure you own them, that they are writable, etc. |
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In Linux NFS I would likely export all three separately, while in TrueNAS |
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BSD I export |
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/mnt/MyPool/mark --alldirs |
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If you cared about science mucking with science2's backups there are ways |
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to stop that, but I don't care because each machine on my network has a |
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bash scripts that points it where I want it to go: |
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mark@science2:~$ cat ./bin/DoTrueNAS |
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#rsync -avx -n --port=873 |
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--exclude={000_NOT_BACKED_UP,RIPS,.cache,.nv,'google-chrome*',DiskImages,Current} |
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/home/mark mark@truenas1:/mnt/MyPool/mark/Backups/science2/. |
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rsync -avx --port=873 |
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--exclude={000_NOT_BACKED_UP,RIPS,.cache,.nv,'google-chrome*',DiskImages,Current} |
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/home/mark mark@truenas1:/mnt/MyPool/mark/Backups/science2/. |
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mark@science2:~$ |
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where the first one is a test config and the second is a real transfer. |
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Because it's rsync if something doesn't finish then I can pick up again |
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with little time lost. |
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Also, I think there are ways for you to build complex pools like a RAID0 |
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from your 6TB and 8TB drives, and then a RAID1 using the RAID0 and your |
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14TB drive but I've never tried it because mine don't have enough drive |
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slots for that. |
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Also, turn on compression. It saves me between 15-20% so 14TB becomes 16TB |
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storage. YMMV. Video files don't compress, at least not much. Data files |
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generally do. |
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Hope this helps. I think you'll find TrueNAS fun actually but there is a |
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learning curve. I've used it for about a year and barely scratched the |
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surface. |
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Good luck, |
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Mark |
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